Equus, Val. Flac. A swift horse.Stipula.Virg.Leue piper. Plin. Folijs leuior. Virg. Leuis homo.Plaut.An vncottstant and mutable sellow: wauering.Leuis homo.Cic.A light fellow of no estimation.Iudex nequam & leuis.Cic.Vulgus leue.Ouid.The mutable commons.Leuis author.Liu.An authout of small credit.Leuia hæc sunt.Terent.These are but trifles, and matters of small weight and importance. Leui brachio aliquid agere.Cic.To doe slightly and negligently.Leue mentis acumen. Claud. The quicke and liuely sharpenesse of the wit.Dolores pati leui de causa.Cic.To abide payne for a small cause.Cura leuior.Virg.Lesse care.Dolor leuis.Cic.Small sorrow.Fortuna leuior malorum.Ouid.Si quid benefacias, leuior pluma est gratia. Plautus. If a man do a good turne, he hath little thanke or none.Iactura leuis. Claud. A small losse.Impensa leuis.Ouid.Small cost or charge.Insania leuis. Horat. Inuentas leuis. Horat. Youth dnconstant, mutable, and wauering.Labor leuis.Terent.Light and easie labour.Munus leue.Ouid.A small gift of little valne.Qui leuiore nomine appellant, Cicef.They which tearme it more gently, or call it by a name lesse odious.Pœoa leuior.Ouid.Lesse. Res leues. Virg.Pretium leuius.Ouid. Ruina non leuis. Horat. Reprehensio leuis.Cic.A small rebukeScriptura leuis.Terent.A stender stlle.Sententia leui pueri.Terent.Thildren of mind mutable and waueting.Seruiturem leuem reddere.Plaut.To make his bondage easie and not grienous.Spes leues. Horat. Somnus leuis. Virg.Mortem illico adfert leui tactu. Pli. It killeth by and by with netter so little touching.Verba leuiora folijs.Ouid.Wordes more wauering than the winde. Vmbra leuis. Tibul. Vina leuia. Plin. Small wines.Versus lenes. Horat. Vomere admodum leui sauciare summam partem terræ, Columel.To till with the plough ouely in the coppe of the earth and make no deepe furrow.Vsus leuis amicitiæ.Ouid.Small vse offeiendship.Vulous leue.Ouid.A little wound. Haberi aliquid in leui. Tac. Little to esteeme: to make small account of.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕquus, i (gen. plur. equūm, Verg. G. 2, 542; Stat. Th. 4, 409 al.), m. [Sanscr. acvas; Gr. i(/ppos (i)/kkos); cf. Epŏna; root, ak-, to be sharp or swift; cf. Gr. a)/kros, w)ku/s; Lat. acus, ocior], a horse, steed, charger.I. Prop. A. In gen. (cf.: caballus, canterius, mannus), Varr. R. R. 2, 7; Col. 6, 27 sq.; Plin. 8, 42, 64, 154 sq.; Pall. Mart. 13; Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 5, 14 (Ann. v. 441 ed. Vahlen); Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 39; id. Men. 5, 2, 109; Cic. Rep. 1, 43; 1, 7, 9 et saep.: equus = equa, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 11.—Offered as a sacrifice to Mars, Paul. ex Fest. p. 81, 16, and p. 178, 24 sq. Müll.; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 1, 20; and v. October: EQVO PVBLICO ORNATVS, EXORNATVS, HONORATVS, etc.; or, ellipt., EQVO PVBLICO, very often in inscriptions; v. Inscr. Momms. 73; 459; 445; 1952; 2456; 2865 al.—In another sense: equi publici,
post-horses
, Amm. 14, 6.—Equo vehi, advehi, ire, desilire, equum conscendere, flectere, in equum ascendere, equo citato, concitato, etc., see under these verbs.—B. In partic. 1. Of cavalry, in the phrase, equis virisque (viri = pedites; cf. eques and vir), adverb., with horse and foot, i. e. with might and main, with tooth and nail, Liv. 5, 37; Flor. 2, 7, 8; also: equis, viris, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21; id. Fam. 9, 7; cf. Nep. Hamilc. 4; and in the order, viris equisque, Cic. Off. 3, 33.—2.Transf., of race-horses: ego cursu corrigam tarditatem tum equis, tum vero, quoniam scribis poëma ab eo nostrum probari, quadrigis poeticis, i. e.
in prose and poetry
, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, a (see the passage in connection).—C.Transf.1. In plur. (like i(/ppoi in Homer), a chariot, Verg. A. 9, 777.—2. The wind, Cat. 66, 54; Val. Fl. 1, 611.—3. In mal. part., Hor. S. 2, 7, 50; Petr. 24, 4; App. M. 2, p. 122; Mart. 11, 104, 14.—D. Prov.: equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur, we don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Hier. Ep. ad Ephes. prooem.— II.Meton.A. Equus bipes, a sea-horse, Verg. G. 4, 389; Auct. Pervig. Ven. 10: fluviatilis,
a river-horse
,
hippopotamus
, Plin. 8, 21, 30, 73.—B. Equus ligneus, like the Homeric a(lo\s i(/ppos, a ship, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 10.—C.The Trojan horse, Verg. A. 2, 112 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 108; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 12; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 25; Hor. C. 4, 6, 13 al.— 2.Trop., of a secret conspiracy, Cic. Mur. 37, 78.—D.A battering-ram, because shaped like a horse; afterwards called aries, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 202.—E.The constellation Pegasus, Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111 sq.; Col. 11, 2, 31; Hyg. Astr. 2, 18; 3, 17.—F. Equus Trojanus, the title of a play of Livius Andronicus, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2 al.